May 4, 2022 · Today I found out that despite using and hearing it frequently, "unintuitive" is not a word. I searched english.stackexchange and found countless answers where the word is used. …

Feb 21, 2011 · This is called " complimentary close ". As reported by Oxford Handbook of Commercial Correspondence: If the letter begins with Dear Sir, Dear Sirs, Dear Madam, or Dear Sir/Madam, the …

Oct 14, 2015 · Certainly "less good" is "acceptable", and, as shown in some of jejorda's examples, better (or perhaps "more good") than "worse" in some circumstances (since it better conveys the intended …

Nov 24, 2022 · 1 "The study conducted in [1] reveals the unintuitive role of X." unintuitive is the converse of intuitive: OED: intuitive 3.a. Of knowledge or mental perception: That consists in immediate …

The "inability to put oneself in the place of one without knowledge" is not the same as "knowledge that is unintuitive". I would either ask a new question or edit the current one. I try to address both in my …

Jul 13, 2020 · If something is counterintuitive, it does not work in the way that you instinctively expect - for example, a swing door that you need to push from one side sometimes has a handle on that side …

Dec 4, 2010 · I'd think that for the brain, repeating and intense scrutiny of a word triggers the same responses (probably causes the same stream of repeated stimuli of the same word/phrase, to the …

Dec 21, 2010 · I would use this title for a blog about cloud computing. Which is correct — "on the cloud" or "in the cloud"?

Obviously biceps would be "bics" in that picture. That could lead to guns going from bigs, big'uns to big guns, for a start. Imagine a studied sport doctor talking about bics (perhaps from shortform in writing …

A brief anecdote: the first time I visited England, various streets had signs announcing "traffic calming schemes". My family found this quite humorous, since in American usage, the word scheme has …